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<html><body><p>At 6 a.m. on March 15, 2000, Ken Balcomb went down to the beach in front of his house on the Bahamian island of Abaco and discovered something frightening: a whale stranded in the shallows. Over the next few hours, 15 more whales and a dolphin beached themselves on Abaco and nearby islands. "They were just coming in all over the place," says Balcomb, a marine biologist at the Bahamas Marine Mammal Survey. </p><p>Balcomb and several volunteers managed to guide 10 of the animals back into the water. But six whales and the dolphin died. Last winter, a government investigation found that the whales had suffered severe ear trauma that damaged their navigational systems; the cause, the report said, was a test of a Navy sonar system in the waters off the Bahamas. The finding has added fuel to a long'standing dispute over the Navy's next-generation sonar technology -- a system that environmentalists say poses grave risks to marine mammals. </p></body></html>
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<html><body><p> The US Environmental Protection Agency called it the worst environmental disaster ever to strike the southeastern United States: On October 11, 2000, a 72-acre coal-slurry pond in Martin County, Kentucky, collapsed into the coal mine below it. More than 300 million gallons of sludge rushed into nearby creeks and the Big Sandy River, smothering 110 miles of waterways in Kentucky and West Virginia. In some places the sludge, a residue from coal processing, was more than seven feet thick. "It was like the thickest chocolate shake," says Mickey McCoy, who lives in Inez, a nearby town that was saturated with slurry. </p></body></html>
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